On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > The goal here is to send the outgoing traffic to the Internet using 2 > > > or more default routes instead of one default > > > route. > > > It is a very simple idea and easy thing to do in OpenBSD. In Linux of > > > course it is difficult. ;) > > > > The route command does take multiple gateways including those for default > route with metric/ weights etc. ECMP works well too. Linux also has an > option of per packet or per connection based balancing which is useful if > upstream routers use stateful filtering. It is pretty simple and easy in > Linux too. Shorewall does use this. > > > > > > using shorewall, it is dead easy - one can do load balancing also, the > only > > problem is when some ISP goes down > > > option 1: use Julian Anastasov's DGD patches. > option 2: I did this very early os I did not want to patch and recompile > the > kernel. Wrote a shell script to ping different ISP gateways and store > states > based on return codes. Had old states and new states variables based on > which route was redefined. Put this in crontab and it worked like a charm. > > Mohan > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with > "unsubscribe <password> <address>" > in the subject or body of the message. > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > Hi, I followed this link http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/Spanning_Multiple_DSLsfor load balancing of 2 ISPs. But I'm unable to achieve the loadbalancing. even I'm unable to ping other PCs. I notice that ,route command gives the same output before & after applying those rules (I followed that link) Could you tell me how can I troubleshoot this issue? -- Thanks & Regards MThanigairajan The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is To Try One More Time -- By Edison _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
